The average cost of renting a two-bedroom apartment in Saskatoon fell by about $150 per month, to $965, last year as vacancy rates remained well above normal levels, according to a new report from Colliers International.

A controversial Saskatoon landlord has been ordered to repay $1,839 in rent plus $500 in aggravated damages to a mother and son who spent five months living in a squalid apartment before they were evicted when health inspectors deemed it uninhabitable.

Ryan Olde is comfortable with a church, a gated community or single-family houses going up on the empty lot near his Willowgrove home, but he isn’t thrilled about an application to rezone the land for low- to medium-density condominiums.

West Vancouver is more known for its luxe mansions, but the owners of a North Vancouver estate-style property off Indian River Crescent in Deep Cove are vying for some attention listing theirs for sale at $36.

One of Saskatoon’s biggest landlords just got bigger after paying almost $17 million for an east-side apartment complex containing 142 units, bringing its total ownership to almost 11 per cent of the city’s roughly, 13,500 apartments.

A Saskatoon mother and her son who were forced to spend five nights sleeping outside after health inspectors deemed their squalid west side apartment unfit for human habitation are just one example of what a University of Saskatchewan researcher calls the “the underbelly to the boom that Saskatchewan has experienced in recent years.